The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2007 MT System

2007 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 95-102

  Shen, Wade ^a   Delaney, Brian ^a   Anderson, Tim ^b   Slyh, Ray ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

CONFUSION NETWORKS; DECODING TECHNIQUES; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; LATTICE DECODING; NETWORK DECODING; SMT SYSTEMS; SPEECH INPUT; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION MODEL; SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS;

DECODING;

EID: 79951614073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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